A recent study on the existence of superbacteria outside the hospital environment, published in the “Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance”, has as its director Professor André Pitondo da Silva, professor at Unaerp. The research was funded by Fapesp and analyzed the molecular profile of the bacteria species Klebsiella pneumoniae, one of the microorganisms that cause most hospital infections and have developed greater resistance to antibiotics in recent years. Forty-eight urine samples from people in the Ribeirão Preto region with urinary tract infection who were not hospitalized were analyzed. In this research, scientists observed that 29 contained multidrug-resistant bacteria. The study is a major discovery because the genetic profile of Klebsiella pneumoniae is common in multiresistant bacteria isolated in hospitals rather than in the community.
According to Professor André Pitondo da Silva, the discovery sets an alert. “We suspect that these patients acquired these bacteria within the hospital, but we cannot say because we have no information about it. Nevertheless, what I am stressing is that people should not be worried. This is not an epidemic. There is no risk of them to become contaminated or passing this bacterium from one person to another. Although they are multiresistant, there are still antibiotics that can fight them”, he explains.
Titled “Molecular characterization of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae belonging to CC258 isolated from outpatients with urinary tract infection in Brazil”, the article was developed by João Pedro Rueda Furlan, Paola Aparecida Alves Azevedo, Guilherme Bartolomeu Gonçalves, Carolina Nogueira Gomes, Rafael da Silva Goulart, Eliana Guedes Stehling and André Pitondo da Silva and it can be read in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213716519300323?via%3Dihub.
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Professor André Pitondo da Silva
Research analyzed the molecular profile of bacteria of the species Klebsiella pneumoniae, one of the microorganisms that most causes nosocomial infections
